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Embattled Child – #poetry #NaPoWriMo

24 Saturday Apr 2021

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So many times
She masks the tears
Struggles to put
Aside her fears

Another day
A body broken
Nowhere to turn
No words are spoken

Wishes she
Could hide forever
Forget the pain
That leaves her, never

Cries in the night
From a voice unknown
An empty heart
She’s so alone

Is there no one to save
This embattled child
Abused, and wasted
Her body, defiled

To help her find
The one she’s lost
Her self-esteem
That’s long been tossed

Cradle her safely
With loving arms
Never again
Shall she know harm

It only takes one
To give her back herself
No more forgotten doll
Sitting there, on a shelf

She needs to know
There is more to this life
Than endless suffering
And intolerable strife…

 

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Winged Warriors – #poetry #NaPoWriMo

12 Monday Apr 2021

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Dragon’s keep

Where wee ones close by

Sit and play

Without care

Knowing they are protected

By winged warriors

 

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Child – #etheree #poetry #challenge

17 Tuesday Nov 2020

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Child
Who is
Reflected
On the water
Bares her soul aloud
In the silence of night
As barren trees listen, watch
Her attention lies far away
Scattered thoughts unleash a roaring din
She wonders if the birds can hear them, too

 

WEEKLY #TANKA TUESDAY #POETRY CHALLENGE NO. 203 #EKPHRASTIC #PHOTOPROMPT

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Arrival – #poetry – #autumn #spirits

14 Thursday Nov 2019

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Autumnal colors,
Russet and red,
Draped in a cape,
That covers her head.

She tucks inside,
The golden locks of hair,
Her mama told her,
To never bare.

A mist forms around her, ever so,
There, in the forest, unafraid, though.

They envelop her,
In a magical dance,
She smiles, happily,
This is not happenstance.

Knowing it is they,
Who come to call,
Every November,
Near the end of fall.

And this child awaits, ever patiently, their arrival,
For she counts on them, for her very survival…

 

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#FridayFantasy ~ She Reminds Me of Me – #poetry #wotd

05 Friday Jul 2019

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Those days, well spent, watching the moon

I longed to be up there, to listen, commune

Along with the stars, shining so sweetly

She’s captured my heart, ever so completely

A child of the moonlight, carefree, gliding

While I’m down on Earth, watching, hiding

I don’t want her know, how I envy her place

Happily swinging, oh, the joy on her face!

I’ll wait in the shadows, as she flies in the night

In my eyes, she is starlight, glistening bright

 

Word of Day Challenge – Capture

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